Melanthius

First appears: Apollodorus, Epitome 7

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Melanthius)

Life events

• Odysseus killed the suitors and revealed himself to Penelope and his father.(Apollodorus, Epitome 7 · 📍 palace)
  • With: Odysseus Penelope Eumaeus Philoetius Telemachus
  • “When none of them could bend it, Ulysses took it and shot down the suitors, with the help of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus. He killed also Melanthius, and the handmaids that bedded with the suitors, and he made himself known to his wife and his father.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 7

• employer: Odysseus (employer->servant) “Melanthius, the goatherd, a servant man, met them”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.